What Kenton Varda thinks about privacy
Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers, Durable Objects and Cap’n Proto; earlier the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2 at Google, and co-founder of Sandstorm.io.
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2 dated positions, 2016, in their own words. Our reading of what Kenton Varda has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsPrivacy, security, ownership, and mobility are all important, but I feel there is a much more important goal that is often poorly understood: The most important reason to decentralize is software—and developer—diversity.
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Their wordsThe only way to solve these problems is by decentralizing the software (not just the storage). Software must be provided as a package – not as a service – with each user running their own private copy.